You see it on TV every day. People at the store mention it. It seems everywhere you go, it’s in the news. No, I’m not talking about a problem that affects men as they grow older. I’m talking about the colossal failure Jimmy Carter began with an Executive Order in 1979.
Hundreds of billions of wasted dollars later, our children are no better educated than before the Department of Education was created. Actually, children perform more poorly than at any time in modern history and leave school with little education, or the tools necessary to lead a successful life.
The vast majority of the taxpayer funds are “laundered” by the teacher’s unions, in an elaborate scheme, to fund the Democrat party. It works in the following fashion. Taxpayer funds are distributed to government, quasi-government, and non-government organizations (NGO), a small percentage of which is used for the stated purpose. This is the “front” for the deceptive practice of funding the left.
Next, the grifters heading these organizations take their cut and distribute funds to the appropriate individuals and groups to “grease the skids”, the then laundered money is funneled back to the left in a “dark money” operation involving both “contributions” and kickbacks. DOGE, and Trump, are attempting to dismantle this operation which is the reason the legacy media and Democrats are shrieking nonsense about “unelected” and “Nazis” to shift public opinion against sound, responsible, fiscal discipline in government. Remember, over 90% of the government work force, from bureaucrats to appointees, are…UNELECTED.
ED (and yes, the “journalist” who keep calling it the DOE, which is the Department of Energy, are wrong), the smallest of cabinet-level agencies, has the third largest budget, ranking only behind the Department of Defense and the Department of Health, and Human Services. As some have reported, this bloated budget is rife with fraud and criminal abuse. At the very least, there should be universal agreement that the American taxpayer is not receiving a positive return on investment.
True to his bombastic nature, Trump caused an uproar when he announced, and subsequently issued an Executive Order, his intension to shutter this agency. While this got attention, it certainly created unnecessary drama and gave the left a rallying issue to champion. Had someone with common sense been in the decision-making process, the messaging could have been much more positive and easier to convey to the American people.
The message should have been along these lines: “Campaigning on the promise of eliminating fraud and waste from our government and making it more efficient and accountable to the American people, the Education Department will be combined with the Department of Health and Human Services removing redundant costs associated with maintaining two departments. The new combined department will be renamed to The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. This will, in effect, reestablish the H,E,W that existed prior to President Carter’s EO that split that department into the DHHS and ED.
…more to come